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Study rates benefits of a post-lunch nap at work highly
Why is it in news?
- A paper published recently by the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., argues that higher quality sleep during a power nap improves economic and psychological outcomes over an increase in the number of hours of sleep.
More in news
- More about the project
(1) The paper, was based on a project that measured sleep among 452 low income adults in Chennai, and acknowledges “generous funding and support” from the government of Tamil Nadu and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-based Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, among others.
(2) Adults in Chennai have strikingly low quantity and quality of sleep relative to typical guidelines: despite spending eight hours in bed, they achieve only 5.6 hours per night of sleep, with 32 awakenings per night.
- Sleep efficiency: Sleep efficiency is calculated by dividing the sleep you are getting by the time spent in bed, expressed as a percentage.
Sources
The Hindu